Horse Emoji

Animals

A side profile of a brown horse in mid-gallop, facing left. The design shows the animal with its mane flowing and legs extended, capturing a sense of high-speed movement.

Usage Context

Used to represent horses, equestrian sports, or speed. It is frequently seen in posts about horse racing, visits to the ranch, or simply to express the feeling of running fast. It often appears alongside 🐴 or 🏇 when discussing animal care or competitive riding.

History

The horse was added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of Emoji 1.0. Its design roots trace back to early Japanese mobile carrier image sets, where it was primarily used to denote popular gambling pastimes like horse racing.

Details

Glyph

🐎

Unicode

U+1F40E

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f40e:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC0E;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Animals

Subcategory animal-mammal

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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